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Apple repays €14B in “illegal aid” to Ireland, so EU drops court case

2018-09-18T20:34:53+00:00 - Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica

Further Reading Apple agrees to set aside more than $15 billion to Ireland in back taxes European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager said Tuesday that the European Commission will finally close its legal investigation into Apple's failure to pay back taxes to Ireland after the company paid €14 billion.
Today Irish Minister of Finance @Paschald confirmed the full recovery of €14 bn of illegal aid to Apple (unpaid taxes).
So we can close the Court action on recovery.
— Margrethe Vestager (@vestager) September 18, 2018Ireland's finance minister, Paschal Donohoe, applauded the EC's move.
Positive news this evening that the @EU_Commission is closing the Court action and dropping infringement proceedings following on from recovery of of alleged State aid from Apple.